Big Data

Silicon Valley research firm cites Decision Management Solutions as a visual and business-friendly extension to digital business platforms Palo Alto, CA – June 22, 2017 Leading Decision Management consulting and decision modeling software provider, Decision Management Solutions, today announced that the company has been named a 2017 Hot Vendor in Digital Business Platforms by Aragon […]

Along with the many topics at Predictive Analytics World SF this week representing the leading edge of analytic sophistication, there were also presenters speaking to the blocking and tackling necessary to nurture analytic thinking and scale adoption within their organization. Since many organizations are facing these same analytic adoption and scale problems, I’d like to highlight […]

Many organizations today are investing heavily in data projects to improve data-driven decision making. But paradoxically most of these projects don’t consider decisions explicitly. Data projects usually begin with data capture before understanding what data will be useful, for what action and for what benefit. Without understanding the decision making that will improve business performance and […]

I am speaking at the Global Big Data Conference in Santa Clara, CA in March on Don’t Apply Big Data Analytics To The Wrong Problem: Put Decisions First One of the biggest challenges for analytics Teams is effective communication with their business partners. Too many projects fail to connect problems in the business environment to […]

We have been helping several organizations improve their analytic and data science projects. Like many users of analytics, these organizations find that their analytic teams often lack a clear understanding of the business problem, resulting in projects that lose their way or produce analytic models that don’t get operationalized, deployed or used. We have helped […]

Join me and Tina Owenmark of Cisco when we speak on The Role of Decision Modeling in Creating Data Science Excellence at Predictive Analytics World in San Francisco. Cisco’s Data Science Office focuses not just on data science, but also on shaping the questions and answers for Cisco’s operational groups. They focus not on technology or […]

One of my LinkedIn contacts recently pointed to this great little article on HBR – How to Tell If Machine Learning Can Solve Your Business Problem – and it makes some points that show the potential for decision modeling to help you better apply machine learning and other analytic techniques. The author begins by pointing out that automation is […]

Part Two of Why Focus On Information Systems? While evolving customer expectations and a demand for immediate responses is often enough to push enterprises to enhance their information systems, other enterprises take the plunge after realizing today’s rapidly changing scale of operations. As the world uses the internet, and social media in particular, the consumer data […]

Part One of Why Focus On Information Systems? Many enterprises fall behind the competition when they fail to realize their success is tied to their information systems. How these systems operate defines how the entire enterprise operates, and how it communicates with people reflects how your enterprise does so as well. In the face of evolving […]

Looking back over the last decade, it is plain to see that Big Data exploded seemingly out of nowhere. From a strange new term to a household name overnight, Big Data undoubtedly has more to offer in the coming years, but how to extract its many secrets? The Business Intelligence industry as a whole may […]